“Harley Quinn: Have you ever loved someone you knew was wrong for you? Someone who hurt you over and over again but you could forgive them because losing them would hurt even more?”
―
Tom Taylor,
Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“There’s a scream that can’t be silenced.It’s rising, growing louder and louder. It’s the scream of a child abandoned, suddenly long ago. As the scream echoed then in that alley, it echoes now in my mind. It penetrates all the dark places. It slams into the loss, bounces against the regret.. and the pain.” ― Tom Taylor
“Have I crossed the line? I'm about to peer in through a window at Mik. For some reason, this feels worse than peering out a window, as I was just doing with a fairly clear conscience. After all, peeping toms peep in, not out. But this is still a public space, I argue to myself. I'm not peeping in his window. I would never do that. This is a cafe. Moreover, it's kind of my cafe. Mine and Karou's. In no legally recognized way, of course. We don't own it, except spiritually.Which is a much higher court than actual real estate ownership.” ― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets
“Okay, that's enough. Everyone. Let's just calm down. We don't want to look bad in front of the psychopaths.” ― Tom Taylor
“He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback)” ― Ken Bruen, Green Hell
“Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap.” ― Tom Taylor, Our American Cousin
“I miss the city of tomorrow—and the man of yesterday.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“It's about legacies. And the question-- how do you make a dead man proud?” ― Tom Taylor
“He put out a hand for Dave to shake. "You're the only new friend of Tom's I've met. And you're just what I expected.""Yup," Dave said. "I wear three-hundred-dollar suits and drive an eight-thousand-dollar car. Mr.Taylor-stop measuring people that way.""It's American," Taylor said defensively."And Nigerian. And Bolivian," Dave said. "It started in Sumer.” ― Joseph Hansen, Troublemaker
“Taylor Swift wasn’t actually one of them—she was just pretending, the same way Jesus had pretended to be a man. That was why she stood in front of the line, ahead of the others rather than among them. Because she was the teacher, the role model. She’d already shaken off the haters and the doubters and activated her best self. She was there to show the world what happiness and freedom looked like. You glowed with it. You did exactly what you wanted to. And whatever costume you wore, you were still yourself, unique and beautiful and unmistakable for anyone else.” ― Tom Perrotta, Mrs. Fletcher
“In a dark layer of Esme's memory there was a kiss. Vividly she recalled Mihai in the snow, naked and fanged. That kiss had conjured ancient passions a god had tried to erase, and Esme remembered the pressure of it and even knew the flavor of that black river. But it belonged to someone else. Tom's kiss, by contrast, wasn't passionate.Esme didn't even have time to close her eyes and tilt her face up to meet it, and it landed crooked and only half on her lips. It was clumsy and it ended quickly. And it was hers.” ― Laini Taylor
“Tem uma coisa que precisa ser dita sobre celebridades. Nós gostamos de ouvir que somos adoradas, e queremos que as pessoas repitam isso o tempo todo. Quando eu já estava mais velha, as pessoas vinham me procurar e diziam: "Com certeza você não aguenta mais ouvir o quanto é incrível", e eu sempre respondia em tom de brincadeira: "Ah, mas ouvir mais uma vez nunca é demais". A verdade é que elogios são um vício. Quando a pessoa se acostuma a ouvir, precisa de cada vez mais só pra se manter equilibrada.” ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“No one should ever have to justify a fake moustache.” ― Tom Taylor
“Superman: No more mercy for cancers posing as men.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 2
“The Flash: I often come here to run and to think. But, today, I don’t want to think—I just want to run.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“SHAZAM: —I just don’t want to see us turned into something we despise.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“Sometimes peace need to be fought for.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“Suggested Reading Nuha al-Radi, Baghdad Diaries Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin Jane Austen, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Pride and Prejudice Saul Bellow, The Dean’s December and More Die of Heartbreak Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes Henry Fielding, Shamela and Tom Jones Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank Henry James, The Ambassadors, Daisy Miller, and Washington Square Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony and The Trial Katherine Kressman Taylor, Address Unknown Herman Melville, The Confidence Man Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading, and Pnin Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs Iraj Pezeshkzad, My Uncle Napoleon Diane Ravitch, The Language Police Julie Salamon, The Net of Dreams Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis Scheherazade, A Thousand and One Nights F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries Joseph Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Italo Svevo, Confessions of Zeno Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups and St. Maybe Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Reading” ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Tom Brokaw labeled the World War II generation the “Greatest Generation,” but he was wrong. That honor belongs to the Founders, the men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of liberty and independence. This is the generation that produced Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Henry, and a host of other patriots; this is the generation that established the United States, framed two successful governing documents and a host of state constitutions, and provided the foundations of American civil liberty; this is the generation that gave us the greatest political thinkers and constitutional scholars in American history, from Jefferson and Madison to John Taylor and St. George Tucker. The Founding generation has no equal, and it deserves to be rescued from politically correct textbooks, teachers, and professors, who want to dismiss the Founders as a cadre of dead, white, sexist, slave-holding males.” ― Brion T. McClanahan, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
“There’s a scream that can’t be silenced.It’s rising, growing louder and louder. It’s the scream of a child abandoned, suddenly long ago. As the scream echoed then in that alley, it echoes now in my mind. It penetrates all the dark places. It slams into the loss, bounces against the regret.. and the pain.” ― Tom Taylor
“Have I crossed the line? I'm about to peer in through a window at Mik. For some reason, this feels worse than peering out a window, as I was just doing with a fairly clear conscience. After all, peeping toms peep in, not out. But this is still a public space, I argue to myself. I'm not peeping in his window. I would never do that. This is a cafe. Moreover, it's kind of my cafe. Mine and Karou's. In no legally recognized way, of course. We don't own it, except spiritually.Which is a much higher court than actual real estate ownership.” ― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets
“Okay, that's enough. Everyone. Let's just calm down. We don't want to look bad in front of the psychopaths.” ― Tom Taylor
“He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback)” ― Ken Bruen, Green Hell
“Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap.” ― Tom Taylor, Our American Cousin
“I miss the city of tomorrow—and the man of yesterday.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“It's about legacies. And the question-- how do you make a dead man proud?” ― Tom Taylor
“He put out a hand for Dave to shake. "You're the only new friend of Tom's I've met. And you're just what I expected.""Yup," Dave said. "I wear three-hundred-dollar suits and drive an eight-thousand-dollar car. Mr.Taylor-stop measuring people that way.""It's American," Taylor said defensively."And Nigerian. And Bolivian," Dave said. "It started in Sumer.” ― Joseph Hansen, Troublemaker
“Taylor Swift wasn’t actually one of them—she was just pretending, the same way Jesus had pretended to be a man. That was why she stood in front of the line, ahead of the others rather than among them. Because she was the teacher, the role model. She’d already shaken off the haters and the doubters and activated her best self. She was there to show the world what happiness and freedom looked like. You glowed with it. You did exactly what you wanted to. And whatever costume you wore, you were still yourself, unique and beautiful and unmistakable for anyone else.” ― Tom Perrotta, Mrs. Fletcher
“In a dark layer of Esme's memory there was a kiss. Vividly she recalled Mihai in the snow, naked and fanged. That kiss had conjured ancient passions a god had tried to erase, and Esme remembered the pressure of it and even knew the flavor of that black river. But it belonged to someone else. Tom's kiss, by contrast, wasn't passionate.Esme didn't even have time to close her eyes and tilt her face up to meet it, and it landed crooked and only half on her lips. It was clumsy and it ended quickly. And it was hers.” ― Laini Taylor
“Tem uma coisa que precisa ser dita sobre celebridades. Nós gostamos de ouvir que somos adoradas, e queremos que as pessoas repitam isso o tempo todo. Quando eu já estava mais velha, as pessoas vinham me procurar e diziam: "Com certeza você não aguenta mais ouvir o quanto é incrível", e eu sempre respondia em tom de brincadeira: "Ah, mas ouvir mais uma vez nunca é demais". A verdade é que elogios são um vício. Quando a pessoa se acostuma a ouvir, precisa de cada vez mais só pra se manter equilibrada.” ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“No one should ever have to justify a fake moustache.” ― Tom Taylor
“Superman: No more mercy for cancers posing as men.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 2
“The Flash: I often come here to run and to think. But, today, I don’t want to think—I just want to run.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“SHAZAM: —I just don’t want to see us turned into something we despise.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“Sometimes peace need to be fought for.” ― Tom Taylor, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“Suggested Reading Nuha al-Radi, Baghdad Diaries Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin Jane Austen, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Pride and Prejudice Saul Bellow, The Dean’s December and More Die of Heartbreak Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes Henry Fielding, Shamela and Tom Jones Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank Henry James, The Ambassadors, Daisy Miller, and Washington Square Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony and The Trial Katherine Kressman Taylor, Address Unknown Herman Melville, The Confidence Man Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading, and Pnin Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs Iraj Pezeshkzad, My Uncle Napoleon Diane Ravitch, The Language Police Julie Salamon, The Net of Dreams Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis Scheherazade, A Thousand and One Nights F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries Joseph Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Italo Svevo, Confessions of Zeno Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups and St. Maybe Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Reading” ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Tom Brokaw labeled the World War II generation the “Greatest Generation,” but he was wrong. That honor belongs to the Founders, the men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of liberty and independence. This is the generation that produced Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Henry, and a host of other patriots; this is the generation that established the United States, framed two successful governing documents and a host of state constitutions, and provided the foundations of American civil liberty; this is the generation that gave us the greatest political thinkers and constitutional scholars in American history, from Jefferson and Madison to John Taylor and St. George Tucker. The Founding generation has no equal, and it deserves to be rescued from politically correct textbooks, teachers, and professors, who want to dismiss the Founders as a cadre of dead, white, sexist, slave-holding males.” ― Brion T. McClanahan, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
